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1 Drive revenue with sales enablement apps Increasing business impact through mobile sales enablement Table of contents 2 Digital Publishing Suite for sales enablement 3 Use engaging sales apps to clinch the deal 5 Jump start business impact using CRM and analytics integration 8 Digital Publishing Suite features 9 Summary In today s competitive selling environment, companies are looking to equip their sales teams with digital tools that can help them shorten the sales cycle and drive deal closure. One thing is for certain tablet devices are now a standard tool among many enterprise sales organizations, with nearly one-third (29%) of organizations in 2013 reporting that tablets are standard issue for their traveling sales representatives, according to Forrester Research, Inc. 1 Many companies are finding that time-pressed customers will only give their attention to representatives with ideas, insights, or a unique buying experience and they re turning to tablets to provide this cutting-edge brand experience. In addition, with half of sales managers growing their teams, they re challenged with how best to onboard and train their new team members so they can minimize administrative overhead time and focus on selling. 2 The opportunity with tablet devices in sales enablement scenarios is clear, but sales and marketing managers are grappling with how best to deploy these devices to drive revenue, increase salesperson efficacy, and deliver measurable results. Many leading companies have turned to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) a complete mobile content platform to help convey sales content with impact, improve sales efficiency and performance, drive revenue, and project a cutting-edge brand image. Remy Cointreau, the spirits distiller, uses Digital Publishing Suite to equip its sales representatives with mobile sales presentations and return-on-investment calculators in order to articulate value to customers. Similarly, Sotheby s International Realty, the global real estate network, uses tablet apps to equip its affiliates with the latest information about the firm s real estate marketing capabilities. Finally, Stryker Orthopaedics, the medical device manufacturer, transitioned its sales presentation apps from custom development to Digital Publishing Suite, and reduced printing costs by 56% in the process. This paper discusses the features of Digital Publishing Suite that enable these and other companies to drive sales impact through tablets. 1 - Empower Salespeople With Tablets To Drive Value For Your Business, Forrester Research, Inc, November 21, , 3 - Best Practices in Mobile Sales Enablement, Profitable Channels, March 2013, Profitable-Channels-Best-Practices-in-Mobile-Enablement-Report pdf

Digital Publishing Suite for sales enablement Digital Publishing Suite is a complete mobile content platform that enables companies to produce sales enablement apps without expensive custom

2 Digital Publishing Suite for sales enablement Digital Publishing Suite is a complete mobile content platform that enables companies to produce sales enablement apps without expensive custom development costs. Digital Publishing Suite allows companies to differentiate the sales experience by delivering interactive sales presentations, playbooks, coaching tools and training content through mobile apps. In addition, companies can reduce selling costs and produce content faster by using design- and marketingbased skillsets to deliver mobile apps instead of using expensive custom developers. Digital Publishing Suite also allows companies to prove the quantifiable impact that sales enablement apps have on the business through turnkey, integrated in-app analytics. In addition, the solution offers internal-only distribution, customized role-based content access, and integrated push notifications. world. Remy Cointreau uses Digital Publishing Suite to create its representatives with mobile sales presentations and ROI calculators. Only Adobe offers a trusted, global digital publishing platform backed by 25 years of publishing experience, as well as the largest portfolio of digital publishing customers representing leading brands around the world. Key benefits Enterprise sales organizations that deliver mobile sales enablement tools to their teams can gain these key benefits: Accelerate sales revenue by delivering pitch decks, playbooks, and training content to sales teams across ipad, iphone, Android tablet and phones, and Windows 8.1 devices through either internal or external apps. Bring products and services to life in sales conversations with in-app interactivity video, slideshows, animations, and more. Reduce production costs by using designers to create app content and interactivity, avoiding high-cost and lengthy custom app development. Provide access to sales enablement materials in online and offline formats, allowing your representatives to engage with your content regardless of their location. Update content quickly in the cloud so your team has access to the latest materials on their device, without reprinting content or redistributing PDFs. Deploy analytics in your apps to measure content performance and app usage for maximum impact. Integrate CRM functionality into the app, allowing managers to correlate content consumption with sales performance. 2

Use engaging sales apps to clinch the deal With Digital Publishing Suite, companies can produce impactful, engaging sales enablement apps using design and marketing skillsets.

Through its Anthology app, Sotheby s International Realty is able to help its nearly 13,000 sales affiliates around the globe articulate to clients the benefits of listing properties on its global

3 Use engaging sales apps to clinch the deal With Digital Publishing Suite, companies can produce impactful, engaging sales enablement apps using design and marketing skillsets. Sotheby s International Realty, the global luxury real estate network, is using Digital Publishing Suite to engage its sales professionals with a sales presentation app. Through its Anthology app, Sotheby s International Realty is able to help its nearly 13,000 sales affiliates around the globe articulate to clients the benefits of listing properties on its global network. By launching a digital sales enablement app, Sotheby s International Realty estimates it saves $1 million per year in printing, storage, and distribution costs, in addition to having the most up-to-date information at their affiliates fingertips, all the time. In addition, the app helps project a modern brand image to prospective clients. With its Anthology app, Sotheby s International Realty gives its affiliates the most up-to-date sales information at their fingertips, saving about $1 million per year in printing costs. Keep sales representatives of up-to-date, all the time One of the reasons Sotheby s International Realty decided to enable its affiliates with an ipad app was to keep the content updated and fresh all the time. When the company adds or updates information, it can simply push new content to users without requiring them to re-download the entire app. It can also notify representatives of new content through a push notification. Sotheby s International Realty can use integrated push notifications to notify sales affiliates of new content. 3

Streamline production costs for mobile apps Digital Publishing Suite helps companies drive down the costs for mobile sales enablement by allowing marketing teams to produce content using design and

4 Streamline production costs for mobile apps Digital Publishing Suite helps companies drive down the costs for mobile sales enablement by allowing marketing teams to produce content using design and marketing skillsets, rather than funding expensive and time-consuming custom development. One company that reduced costs by transitioning from custom development to Digital Publishing Suite is Stryker Orthopaedics, the medical device manufacturer. Its integrated sales tool helps on-the-go biomedical sales representatives communicate with sophisticated surgeons. Inside the app, video and interactivity immediately illustrate benefits of the products. As a sales enablement tool, these internally distributed apps are available only to the company s sales force. After two years of using custom-developed apps, the Stryker team embraced Digital Publishing Suite to reduce publishing costs and simplify the production process. Over a 2 year span, the company reduced costs by 56%, saving $3.9 million by distributing sales material through a mobile app. The Stryker Orthopaedics integrated sales tool is distributed internally and helps on-the-go biomedical sales teams communicate with sophisticated surgeons. Cost savings by using Digital Publishing Suite The transition from custom-developed apps to DPS-produced apps was cost-effective for Stryker Orthopaedics. Over a 2 year span, the company reduced costs by 56%, saving $3.9 million by distributing sales material through a mobile app. The Stryker sales force also rapidly adopted the DPS-produced tablet app as a sales tool, with 7 out of the top 10 branches using the app frequently. With in-app analytics and metrics, Stryker was also able to measure overwhelmingly positive adoption of the app a 78% usage rate. 4

Jump start business impact using CRM and analytics integration Companies can increase the impact of their sales enablement content by integrating their mobile apps with CRM systems like Salesforce.

5 Jump start business impact using CRM and analytics integration Companies can increase the impact of their sales enablement content by integrating their mobile apps with CRM systems like Salesforce.com. Using CRM integration in mobile apps, marketing and sales managers can correlate content consumption with sales and revenue impact. With this data, marketers can retool and refine content for maximum business impact, allowing sales management to identify top performers and drive selling best practices across their organization. Adobe uses CRM Integration in its own sales enablement app to drive revenue and shorten the sales cycle. Adobe sales representatives present interactive information about the mobile publishing platform to prospective customers through an interactive app, the Adobe Readiness Toolkit. CRM Integration functionality allows marketers to record which content was displayed to a prospect from a company s mobile app during a sales visit, upload custom notes directly into a sales opportunity record from the mobile app, synchronize contacts and opportunities to the app, and record app usage back into the CRM system. The Adobe Readiness toolkit allows sales representatives to present interactive information about Adobe products to prospective customers. 5

Record content and data from sales enablement apps When visiting a customer, a sales representative can toggle a button in the app to begin recording content usage in the app and send that data to

6 Record content and data from sales enablement apps When visiting a customer, a sales representative can toggle a button in the app to begin recording content usage in the app and send that data to the CRM system. Digital Publishing Suite apps integrated with CRM systems can send folio usage such as the article, folios, and interactive overlays consumed back to the CRM system for further analysis of individual sales opportunities or the performance of individual sales representatives/teams. After finishing the presentation, the sales rep deactivates the recording, and then uploads custom notes about the sales visit including areas of interest for the customer, further areas for exploration, and other details to the opportunity record in the CRM system. These custom notes can help representatives prepare for further interactions with the customer, as well as help coordinate selling activities in large, distributed organizations. Correlate content with business impact After several sales visits, marketing managers can begin to gain insight into how sales representatives are using app content in aggregate through integration with Adobe Analytics. By examining usage patterns around content consumption, interactivity types, dwell times, and more, marketing managers can gain a better sense of the content they should produce in order to more effectively enable their sales teams. 6

Based on this analysis, sales management could identify best practices for others throughout the organization to follow.

7 Sales managers can correlate content consumption with revenue impact to uncover best practices and then educate others in the organization. For example, a sales manager could identify top-performing sales representatives based on revenue, and then identify which app content the representative has been delivering to customers. Based on this analysis, sales management could identify best practices for others throughout the organization to follow. a Although CRM Integration with Digital Publishing Suite does have the capability to sync contacts and opportunities to a mobile app, the integration is not intended to replicate mobile CRM capabilities. The integration s greatest strength lies in its ability to capture data from content-centric sales enablement apps and send it back to the CRM and analytics back-end systems for further analysis. 7

8 Digital Publishing Suite includes both turnkey services and APIs to distribute and drive engagement with sales enablement content. Digital Publishing Suite features To help accelerate the impact of sales enablement apps, including the ones described previously, Digital Publishing Suite includes a variety of features and services specifically geared for sales enablement, including the following: Content authoring Use design and marketing skillsets to create app content at lower costs using Adobe InDesign or the content management functionality of Adobe Experience Manager Interactivity Adobe Edge Animate integration Content preview Leave-behind sharing Baseline analytics Adobe Analytics integration Multiplatform publishing Push notifications Device GPS integration Device camera integration Custom slots Custom library Custom store Private publishing Restricted distribution Secure content delivery CRM integration Bring content to life in a digital publication through slide shows, audio, video, scrolling frames, 360-degree rotation, panoramas, pan and zoom, and hyperlinks within the Adobe InDesign workflow. Create animated, interactive HTML content for inclusion in DPS apps. Preview interactive content on the desktop and devices before publishing. Expand the reach of your branded content by enabling your readers to share articles via , or through social networks. Use baseline analytics dashboards to gain visibility into content performance including app download, app install, content, interactivity, and standard audience metrics. Integrate with Adobe Analytics (available either as a separate subscription or bundled with DPS) to allow extended analysis of data. Deliver publications to consumers preferred devices with the same experience across platforms, including iphone, ipad, Android tablets and phones, and Windows 8.1 devices. Alert readers to new content through push notifications, including custom text messages directly from the DPS Dashboard, or through third-party notification providers. Connect more deeply with your sales representatives through geographically targeted presentations, price lists and sales sheets. Allow sales representatives to personalize content by taking photographs from within your app and integrating them into content. Customize slot buttons at the bottom of the library UI with unique labels and icons. Customize the content library area and display content with your brand and style implemented in HTML. Showcase and display content available for download in a completely customizable download area through HTML. Deliver mobile apps to users only within your company (through an intranet or mobile device management solution) without making content available on public app marketplaces. Display customized content lists according to user role, based on back-end integration with identity databases. Deliver secure, encrypted folio content to apps, allowing increased protection of sales enablement or internal communications material delivered within an organization. Integrate app with customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, like Salesforce.com, to record & upload app content displayed during a sales visit. 8

9 Summary Modern enterprise sales organizations need to arm their sales teams with tools that enable them to convey product information effectively and wow their prospects and customers. Today s preferred tools include content-rich digital apps created for mobile devices because they enable in-field efficacy and convey a forward-thinking brand impression to potential customers. Many large, sophisticated sales organizations have used Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to create dynamic, interactive presentations that help sales representatives effectively communicate product and service information to their customers. With new CRM Integration functionality in Digital Publishing Suite, companies have access to a new level of data and insights. Management teams can now correlate content consumption with sales and revenue impact, allowing marketers to retool and refine content for maximum performance, and sales management to drive best practices across their organization. For more information Solution details: Adobe Systems Incorporated 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA USA Adobe, the Adobe logo, and InDesign are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. 8/14

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